IETF RFC 3024
Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP, revised
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| Organization: | IETF |
| Publication Date: | 1 January 2001 |
| Status: | active |
| Page Count: | 30 |
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Mobile Internet Protocol (IP) uses tunneling from the home agent to the mobile node's care-of address, but rarely in the reverse direction. Usually, a mobile node sends its packets through a router on the foreign network, and assumes that routing is independent of source address. When this assumption is not true, it is convenient to establish a topologically correct reverse tunnel from the care-of address to the home agent.
This document proposes backwards-compatible
This document obsoletes RFC 2344.
Document History
IETF RFC 3024
January 1, 2001
Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP, revised
Mobile Internet Protocol (IP) uses tunneling from the home agent to the mobile node's care-of address, but rarely in the reverse direction. Usually, a mobile node sends its packets through a router...